Track Listing

1. Back In The Day
2. Foolish Fool�����
3. One For All Time
4. Angel
5. Will You Love Me?
6. Castles Made Of Sand
7. Disrespectful (feat. Mary J. Blige)
8. Sign 'O' The Times
9. Pack'd My Bags/You Got The Love (feat. Tony Maiden)
10. Ladies Man
11. You Belong To Me (feat. Michael McDonald)
12. Hail To The Wrong
13. Super Life

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46905 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

Customer Reviews

Nothing Wrong With An Old Hat
Anyone who knows me well would be certain to tell you about my fondness for hats.

I am a Wolf who owns and wears many hats. More than fifty in The Cave at the last count.

A veritable Imelda Marcos of hats.

My favorite hat is a very old hat. It once belonged to a woodcutter.
How I came to own it must, to some degree, be left to your imaginations.

Suffice to say that its' acquisition involved a totally justified act of revenge
on my part for the death of my great-great grandfather, following a complex
and regrettable chain of events which has become remembered over time in
woodland lore as 'The Red Bonnet Incident'.

It is a brown and somewhat battered brown felt fedora with two holes
cut in the top to accomodate my ears.

Which brings me in a roundabout sort of way to Ms Khan's new album 'Funk This'.

Nothing wrong with an old hat then. This I think we have comfortably established.

The question for us here then must be - Does Ms Khan still give good hat ?

I saw her for the first time in 1972, singing in a small but not insignificant
musical venue in deepest, darkest Essex.
The stage was low and I was hunkered down at the front witnessing one of
the most electrifying performances of my young and hairy life at that time.

The sweat flew all around from her wildly flailing mane drenching everyone
standing in the first two rows. I did not wash for a fortnight.

The eleven tracks which make up this new album are a gift.

The voice is still remarkably intact all the way through its extensive
and extraordinary register. Soulful; technically brilliant and retaining
the capacity to strip paint off ceilings.
This lady can still throw down a five-part harmony in the studio
like there's no tomorrow !

Highlights must include funky opening track 'Back In The Day' - Vintage Khan.

'One For All Time' - a gorgeously soulful ballad.
This track, together with 'Angel' are two of the very best
vocal performances of her 35+ year career.

'Disrespectful' is a storming and worthy duet with Ms Blige
which could knock the spots off a leopard.

Ms Khan's take on the small purple one's 'Sign Of The Times'
gives the original a real run for its' money.

'Ladies Man' - soft, sexy and full of sweet soul honey.

'Hail To The Wrong' - another vintage funktastic classic.

The band is splendid. The production is cool, slick and accomplished.

Trust me - old or not we all need a hat like this in our lives.

The real deal - A true Diva indeed.

Highly Recommended.

A RETURN TO FORM FOR CHAKA
I worked out I have been a Chaka Khan fan for 33 years !!!. I so wanted this to be good - and I was not disappointed.
This is a return back to the Rufus days. Great opener, track 2 is the best on the album, the pace slows down on track 3 leading to Angel which is a big ballad. Back to the funk up to the fantastic duet with Mary J Blige - two powerhouses together - fabulous.
Shame the album wasn't 10 tracks as there are 3 duds - the cover of Sign O' The Times is terrible (there are dozens of other Prince tracks that would have been better to use if one had to be included ) the karaoke version of You Belong To Me is poor (again , plenty of other Michael McDonald tracks that would have been better), and the inclusion of Packed My Bags / Tell Me Something Good seems very odd - both are studio versions as performed on the Live Stompin At The Savoy Album. But, set the CD player to skip these three are the rest is just fantastic.
Nt only did I want to play it over and over but it sent be back to all those great old albums as well - a re-master series waiting to happen if ever there was. Enjoy

Chaka hits it out the BALL PARK !
From start to finish this CD is sheer perfection. Back to REAL music on so many levels. One For All Time is so CHAKA/RUFUS 1977. Angel is a heartfelt ballad that invokes so many emotions. My favorite though is SIGN O' TIMES which she turns into a new anthem(sampling I'm Every Woman and adding new lyrics). On Will You Love Me we get the famous WALL OF CHAKA backing vocals. Back In The Day & Hail To The Wrong - funk at it's best. Castles Made Of Sand is to short - it gets good just when she goes off! Ladies Man - she works it. Even Foolish Fool works(although i was skeptical). Chaka's best CD in quite some time!